signals: remove 'handler' parameter to tracehook functions

Container-init must behave like global-init to processes within the
container and hence it must be immune to unhandled fatal signals from
within the container (i.e SIG_DFL signals that terminate the process).

But the same container-init must behave like a normal process to processes
in ancestor namespaces and so if it receives the same fatal signal from a
process in ancestor namespace, the signal must be processed.

Implementing these semantics requires that send_signal() determine pid
namespace of the sender but since signals can originate from workqueues/
interrupt-handlers, determining pid namespace of sender may not always be
possible or safe.

This patchset implements the design/simplified semantics suggested by
Oleg Nesterov.  The simplified semantics for container-init are:

	- container-init must never be terminated by a signal from a
	  descendant process.

	- container-init must never be immune to SIGKILL from an ancestor
	  namespace (so a process in parent namespace must always be able
	  to terminate a descendant container).

	- container-init may be immune to unhandled fatal signals (like
	  SIGUSR1) even if they are from ancestor namespace. SIGKILL/SIGSTOP
	  are the only reliable signals to a container-init from ancestor
	  namespace.

This patch:

Based on an earlier patch submitted by Oleg Nesterov and comments from
Roland McGrath (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/258).

The handler parameter is currently unused in the tracehook functions.
Besides, the tracehook functions are called with siglock held, so the
functions can check the handler if they later need to.

Removing the parameter simiplifies changes to sig_ignored() in a follow-on
patch.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 1c88144..92a1ab0 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static int sig_ignored(struct task_struct *t, int sig)
 	/*
 	 * Tracers may want to know about even ignored signals.
 	 */
-	return !tracehook_consider_ignored_signal(t, sig, handler);
+	return !tracehook_consider_ignored_signal(t, sig);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ int unhandled_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
 		return 1;
 	if (handler != SIG_IGN && handler != SIG_DFL)
 		return 0;
-	return !tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(tsk, sig, handler);
+	return !tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(tsk, sig);
 }
 
 
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ static void complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, int group)
 	    !(signal->flags & (SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE | SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT)) &&
 	    !sigismember(&t->real_blocked, sig) &&
 	    (sig == SIGKILL ||
-	     !tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(t, sig, SIG_DFL))) {
+	     !tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(t, sig))) {
 		/*
 		 * This signal will be fatal to the whole group.
 		 */